Everton Shock Manchester City 4-0 In League Match

City have suffered three league defeats in their last seven matches, a torrid run of form despite beating Arsenal at the Etihad in December.

With a core of players like Holgate, Tyias Browning, and Brendan Galloway in the back, Davies, Dowell and Barkley in the middle, with Calvert-Lewin, Lookman and Lukaku up front, Everton are potentially looking at developing a squad that can have them contending regularly for a European spot. Their second from Kevin Mirallas came at a vital time, just moments into the second half.

Romelu Lukaku and Kevin Mirallas put the Toffees two up against Pep Guardiola’s men after 47 minutes, and then the teenagers took over.

Now trailing by 10 points, Pep Guardiola seems to admit that Man City won’t be able to catch leaders Chelsea.

City has made more changes at the back than any other club, an indication perhaps of why it finds it hard to keep the goals out.

Davies, who had cleared a Clichy header off his own goal-line in the first half, put the contest beyond the visitors with an exquisite first goal for the club he joined as a 10-year-old, one that encapsulated the many qualities he has shown since joining the senior ranks. “We have to see. Then at the end of the season we will evaluate our levels and performances: how was the coaching, how the players were”.

Everton started the game well, although City had a penalty shout waved away when Raheem Sterling was felled in the box in the first half.

“We spoke about him at Hull when he came on to replace Gareth Barry on that Friday night and he brought that extra energy into midfield”, said Carragher. Sergio Aguero has contributed 139 goals for Manchester City in 164 Premier League appearances – scoring 113 of them.

Having had nine days to recover from the West Ham game, City should be fresh for their trip to Goodison Park. Opta tell us that Everton haven’t won any of their last seven Premier League games against the Citizens, a sequence that stretches back to March 2013. This season the teams at the top are incredibly strong.

“I have to look for the best solution to take the players to winning games again”, he said. “We concede them very easily and this is the same story”.

“I can’t deny that we haven’t tried to contact Joe. Maybe not this season”.

The wry smile on the face of Everton manager Ronald Koeman had a deeper meaning to it that the Premier League is hardly a “one or two horse race” – something which the former Barcelona and Bayern Munich trainer has been accustomed to in the past. “It was a flawless afternoon”.

Koeman is hopeful a £10.3 million deal to buy Standard Liege’s Algerian forward Ishak Belfodil may be struck in the coming days, but nothing will be done in time for him to play against City. You are born as a football player to play games, not to sit on the bench or not be part of the team.

“It’s not all about the young players”, Koeman added. But they are for the future.

“Of course we can do better”.

Of the last 22 shots on target that Bravo has faced in the Premier League, 14 have resulted in goals. We can expect real improvement over the next 12 months, but such poor performances are inexcusable.